Lothar von Trotha
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Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha was a German military commander during the European new colonial era. As a brigade commander of the East Asian Expedition Corps, he was involved in suppressing the Bo
Trotha in 1905
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Trotha in South West Africa
Trotha in Hamburg, c. 1905
Herero uprising
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The Herero and Nama War is the collective term for a series of interlinked, anti-colonial armed struggles by native peoples in German South West Africa, mainly the Herero and Nama people, against the
Lothar von Trotha
…served as governor of German South West Africa and Commander in Chief of its colonial forces, in which role he suppressed a native rebellion during the Herero Wars. He was widely condemned for his brutality in the Herero Wars, particularly for his role in the genocide of the Nama Khoekhoe and the Herero. Lothar…
German troops in combat with the Herero in a painting by Richard Knötel.
Theodor Leutwein toasting Hendrik Witbooi in 1896
Samuel Maharero, Herero paramount chief
German garrison of Windhoek, besieged by the Herero, 1904